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Originally Posted by renormalised
As for the "noble savage gets rolled over by the more advanced culture" business...that's an even bigger one. You are trying to equate alien cultures with the same motives and actions as Earth humans of earlier centuries. We have no idea what the motivations of an alien culture would be, so we have no way to tell what would happen.
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I must strongly disagree with this statement.
The evolution in general prefers aggressive species - they have advantage over other, less aggressive and capable to protect or claim their living space and territory.
As a result, humans are what they are, aggressive and seeking control even over other, human "tribes" (read: nations cultures etc).
To me it is quite obvious that evolution on other inhabited planets will result in very similar (if not much worse) behaviour of successful species.
So, I fully agree with Dr. Hawking opinion on the issue. Better be safe than sorry.